25 years after the launch of Jean Paul Gaultier’s classic Le Male fragrance, the brand has now launched the next generation: Le Male Parfum .

In a black and gold officer’s jacket, this intense Eau de Parfum takes the helm of the Le Male fragrance line with style, intensity and elegance that leaves a wooded oriental trail in its wake, with the charismatic and powerful signature of a leader.

Launched in 1995, the original Le Male is a symbol of adventure, independence and liberty. The fragrance offered a modern alternative to traditional men’s colognes of the time. Today, 5 bottles of Le Male are sold every minute worldwide.

 The captain’s arrived, we’re about to set sail. The keen wind of cardamom in its sails, a freshness of lavender and iris in its middle notes, this intense Eau de Parfum envelopes with delight in the addiction of its powerful vanilla scents. A contrasted olfactory odyssey that disorientates and seduces the senses. In its masculine wake floats the charisma of an officer. Powerful, reassuring, masculine: prepare to enjoy the wind in your sails.

The fragrance delivers a lavender breeze  with clouds of vanilla in discreet flakes to add spice to the sky. A little oriental and woody. 

And the bottle is unmistakable, a work of art. A sailor’s top, in black, almost in evening wear. All soft edges, just like on a far away boat. The packaging is lacquered like the deck, and as black as the night. Accessorized in gold, here and there, like all the best dressed.

The incandescent sea breeze of Le Male Le Parfum is all down to the perfumers Quentin Bisch and Nathalie Gracia-Cetto.

Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Parfum – $103 at Macy’s